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Benjamin Dreyer

@bcdreyer.social

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America's Copy Editor® author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his benjamindreyer.com

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · Nov 27

Greetings, new people here at House of Copyediting. Besides first-rate, IISSM, prose advice, you'll get:

• a random theater photo of the day, sometimes more than one
• birthday alerts for dead actresses, and occasionally live ones
• Sallie updates

And it's all free!

our dog, Sallie, a pit mix who looks a bit like a pony or a calf, dozing in bed amid pillows and a quilt

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 3h

I just nearly posted “Ye gods, what a dreadful title” at the author of the book.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3h

Arrest her?

ProPublica @propublica.org · 6h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 4h

feels like Lotte Reiniger gif time

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 4h

Sounds like a you problem, writes Benjamin Dreyer.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 4h

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 7h

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 4h

Other direction.

Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 4h

Nice goin'.

In the spirit of full disclosure, I'm blocked by 2,292 accounts here and am blocking 10,117.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 4h

(Having more accounts block you than follow you, as is imminent in this case, is probably not a good thing.)

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 4h

OK, we overshot.

508 blocks and counting.

8 of you are going to have to undo yours and follow him.

I don't make the rules.

Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 4h

29 to go.

The Chicago Union Stockyards are impressed with this rate of slaughter.

Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 4h

75 to go.

I'm not unimpressed.

#TotesLitotes

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 4h

And, of course, antifa's girlfriend.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 4h

29 to go.

The Chicago Union Stockyards are impressed with this rate of slaughter.

Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 4h

75 to go.

I'm not unimpressed.

#TotesLitotes

Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 5h

When we can get this loser to 500 blocks, I'll block him myself.

156 to go.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 4h

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · Dec 2

Words To Live By (If You're Me):

"Alonzo, every telephone call isn't for you."

—Mary Astor, Meet Me in St. Louis

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 4h

75 to go.

I'm not unimpressed.

#TotesLitotes

Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 5h

When we can get this loser to 500 blocks, I'll block him myself.

156 to go.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 4h

124.

And you've blocked 60.

Those are very gentle numbers.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 4h

106 to go.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 4h

I can see how many people have blocked me, I can see how many people have blocked you, it's a whole thing.

You can go to clearsky dot app.

I warn you: If you're compulsive, like I am, it can be a bit addictive.